I didn't participate in this, but as a long-time observer, I was also confused at first what participants were supposed to do. As you said, 'Comment Fest' is known to me as a fest where people leave prompts in the comment section, then anyone can fill the prompts with drabbles. I think what would have been most helpful (other than calling it something else, lol) would be to put at the top of the Guidelines something like 'This is a fest to encourage leaving comments on fanworks. To participate, all you need to do is leave a comment on someone else's fanwork.' Because I had to read pretty far down in the guidelines to find anything that actually said people were supposed to leave feedback or comments on other people's stuff. It's a great idea, though, I hope it works out next time!
Along with name change, that's a rely good point! I think if i'd know about the name confusion thing I might have written it differently? I don't know. Anyway, good point. That'll definitely be rectified if the event tries for a rerun in the summer.
In addition to the name change/clarification, I think a longer time-line would help. Because you're asking people to try new fics of types they might not normally read, but recs are not built into the fest, so someone has to go and find a fic of that type that they might enjoy, which means research. Yes, there are a ton of fics out there, but the sheer number of them makes it hard to know where to start. Also, people may not have time for fic-reading that day, or may already have a back-log of fics from a fest they are following that they want to read, that do not fit that category. I like the idea of reading new types of fics, but for me fests are helpful mostly as things that inspire writing of fics - by me, or by others which are then collected in an easy-to-find place. So writing comments is more a private thing that I do as a result of reading things, than something I participate in a fest to do.
say 3 themes and giving people a whole week to comment and report back on them. Do you think this would work better
I think this would have helped me a lot actually. I read during that time, but not the right things on the right days. I kind of read things that come up on my feed as they come up. Like with the drabbles one - I was like, I read drabbles all the time - but I think I was just too tired that particular night.
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I think what would have been most helpful (other than calling it something else, lol) would be to put at the top of the Guidelines something like 'This is a fest to encourage leaving comments on fanworks. To participate, all you need to do is leave a comment on someone else's fanwork.' Because I had to read pretty far down in the guidelines to find anything that actually said people were supposed to leave feedback or comments on other people's stuff.
It's a great idea, though, I hope it works out next time!
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Along with name change, that's a rely good point! I think if i'd know about the name confusion thing I might have written it differently? I don't know. Anyway, good point. That'll definitely be rectified if the event tries for a rerun in the summer.
Thanks again. It's really appreciated. :)
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I think this would have helped me a lot actually. I read during that time, but not the right things on the right days. I kind of read things that come up on my feed as they come up. Like with the drabbles one - I was like, I read drabbles all the time - but I think I was just too tired that particular night.
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